El Paisano Volume XXXIII, No.10

Health jobs
workshop set
Student Services will present the
second workshop to educate students about different areas of
employment. The second workshop will focus on Jobs in Health
Science and will include a video of
30 different jobs in health care.
The workshop is from noon – 1
p.m., Monday, April 10, in the
Roadrunner Room, Scharbauer
Student Center.
For more information, contact
Dale Williams, counselor/disability specialist at 685-5598
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Express
Kevin Carrigan leading
way for MC Golf
Hodge
Carillon Tower
Test your inner
scumbag
El P a i s a n o
Volume XXXIII, No. 10
The Student Newspaper of Midland College
April 18
Science Extravanganza
Awards set
for HS Levitt
Poetry contest
Honor reception
The President’s and Deans’
Reception honoring students who
have achieved academic excellence will be 2 – 3 p.m., Tuesday,
April 11 in the Allison Fine Arts
building lobby. Honor roll certificates will be available at the reception or may be picked up in the
registrar’s office.
Easter Break
The college will be closed for
Easter Weekend beginning at 5
p.m., Thursday, April 13, and will
remain closed through Monday,
April 17. Classes resume and
offices open at 8 a.m., Tuesday,
April 18.
Student honored
with state award
Will McAdoo was selected
Texas Junior College Student
Government Association Student
of the Year at the statewide convention last weekend. Six regions
nominate their best student and one
is selected. El Paisano will have an
in-depth story in the next issue.
Dasch presents
info on April 25
Looking for Martians at the
South Pole: The Search for
Meteorites
from
Mars
in
Antarctica is the subject of a presentation by Julius Dasch, Ph.D.,
planned for 7 p.m., Tuesday, April
25 in the Wagner and Brown
Auditorium, Allison Fine Arts
building.
Dasch’s talk will describe an
ANSMET field trip and the importance of meteorites.
Dasch, an adjunct professor of
geology at Sul Ross State
University (SRSU) in Alpine,
Texas, has degrees in geology from
SRSU (BS), the University of
Texas in Austin (MA), and Yale
University (MS, PhD).
The evening is free and open to
the public.
Student Art
Show, Sale
The opening reception for the
Spring Student Art Show is at 7
p.m., Thursday, April 27. Students
from all art classes display at least
one piece of artwork from each
class.
A prints and pots sale will also
take place – one night only – during the reception. The sale comes
at a time when customers can shop
for Mother’s Day, graduation and
Father’s Day gifts. The sale of student work benefits the MC art
department with proceeds used for
special projects.
The reception is free and open to
the public.
Cosmetology
offers new
summer class
Looking for a great career? The
MC cosmetology program is offering classes to help you get your
manicuring license.
Classes will be offered 7:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays,
beginning June 1.
For more information, contact
Michael Fields at (432) 685-6723.
Right in picture:
Robert Weidmann,
MC faculty director
of respiratory care,
watches and
explains as
students react
when a voluteer
lifts pig lungs
from a cooler.
See more photos
on page 3.
Photo courtesy MC Media Services
Cowan Series Review
Ruthie Foster:
Gospel songstress performs at MC
By Morgan Gotcher
Staff Reporter
Texas native Ruthie Foster and her
band brought some soul into
Chaparral Center Thursday, March
23. Foster is widely acclaimed for her
mixture of gospel, soul and blues.
As part of the Phyllis & Bob Cowan
Performing Arts Series, tickets were
free to the public.
“This is why I do my music,” said
Foster of the free show. “This is why I
do what I do.” It brings “exactly the
kind of crowd” she wants, she said.
“Growing up I heard country, I
heard blues; I grew up singing gospel
and there was really no thought to the
transition,” Foster said. “I guess
growing up in Texas, you’re so
exposed to different types of music.”
Foster was raised in Gause, Texas
among a small community of about
500 people. During the show, she candidly recalled listening to her mother’s record player. This cultivated her
musical diversity.
“Anywhere else I go, a Texas artist
is considered such a novelty because
you never know what you’re going to
hear,” Foster said. “They may be
country, they may be tejano, they may
be cajunto, they may be blues; and I
think that’s what makes Texas musicians so great.”
After a brief introduction from MC
President David E. Daniel, Foster
started the show with several of her
favorite gospel songs as well as some
original songs of her own. Foster’s
music seamlessly blends her soulful
voice with her profoundly blues guitar
style.
After five songs, Foster requested a
microphone to replace a defective guitar cord. While the sound crew was
working on it, Foster and her allfemale band sang an a cappella version of Sunhouse’s Don’t You Mind
People Grinning in Your Face. This
highlighted the comfortable atmosphere that made the show so memorable.
Foster’s band features herself on
guitar and lead vocals, Cyd Cassone
on percussion and back-up vocals,
Tonya Richardson on the bass guitar,
Samantha Banks on drums and
Stephanie Blue on the keyboard.
April 7, 2006
“I love getting a chance to play with
a band like these girls,” Foster said,
“You guys (Midland College and the
Performing Arts Series) gave me that
opportunity to bring who I want to
bring and really expand the sound of
my music, and I really appreciate
that.”
Foster’s music inspired the audience to clap along with the band many
times, and the spectators were encouraged to sing along with some of the
classic gospel songs. The crowd was
also treated to a few of Foster’s reggae-inspired songs.
Before the conclusion of the show,
Foster’s band played a “church
groove,” as she described it, while
taking the audience on a journey to
her church as a child. Foster narrated
the scene while noting points of
humor. Her storytelling was complete
with impressions of the pastor and
members of the church and her family. Once again, the audience was in
the spirit of things, clapping and
laughing along.
Foster said she has recently been
See Foster, page 5
From Staff Reports
The awards ceremony for the 18th
Annual Hilda Simmons Levitt Poetry
Contest is at 6 p.m., Tuesday, April
18, in the Roadrunner Room of
Scharbauer Student Center, according
to Lynda Webb, contest coordinator
and director of Midland College’s
reading lab.
“We had 27 entrants with 77 poems
to be judged this year,” Webb said.
“The judge, David Daniel, is from
Cambridge, Mass., and is the editor of
the poetry/small press magazine
Ploughshares.
Daniel’s Seven-Star Bird was
recently published by Graywolf Press
and was awarded the Larry Levis
Prize for the best first or second book
of the year. His poems and reviews
have appeared in many respected
journals, and Harold Bloom has called
him “an authentic heir of Hart Crane.”
He is director of the Creative
Writing Program at Fairleigh
Dickinson University. Though a
Southerner, Daniel has lived in
Cambridge, Mass., for many years
where he also works as a songwriter.
A reading and the awards ceremony
will take place followed by a small
reception after the program where
copies of the poet’s work will be
available for sale.
The Hilda Simmons Levitt Poetry
Contest is in its 18th year. The late
Stanley Levitt established the contest
in 1986 in memory of his wife, Hilda,
who had taken many classes at MC.
The first HSL contest was held in
1988. In the fall of 1989, the winning
poems from the first HSL Poetry
Contest were published in the Tableau
magazine. Tableau is MC’s creative
writing magazine. Each fall the magazine publishes the winners of the HSL
contest along with the origins of the
contest.
Billy Feeler, dean of fine arts and
communications, judged the first contest. He had taught at Odessa College
and at the time was listed as a writer
and businessman.
“I believe that Midland College’s
Hilda Simmons Levitt Contest is one
of the finest college poetry contests in
the country—both in terms of the
quality of the writing and in terms of
the prizes awarded. I know that we
have the best benefactor. Ms. Levitt’s
husband, who established the contest
See HSL, page 5
Easter Bunny visits
By Michael Montalvo
Staff Reporter
In a moment that would be considered comical
if not for the cause, a baby tried to breast feed
from the Easter Bunny.
Babies love him and animals fear him and on
Saturday, March 25, the veterinary students
offered the chance for pets and owners to have
their pictures taken with the Easter Bunny.
“This is the first year for the Easter pictures,”
said Teena Davis, clinical adviser. “I wasn’t sure
about it, everyone does Santa Claus pictures and
all that but Easter pictures? I don’t know if that’s
a big deal anymore. The turnout has been better
than I expected.”
MC veterinary program students volunteered
their time to raise money for the National
Association of Veterinary technologies of
America.
“The money goes to students who participated
to help pay for continuing education seminars as
well as offset the price of the state board exam,”
said Dana Kiser, treasurer of NAVTA.
“Student involvement is strictly voluntary,”
said Davis but to recruit “a sign-up sheet was put
up so students could volunteer their time to raise
money for their account,” said Ashley
Hardenbrook, president of the local student
chapter of NAVTA. “
“I was recruited but I volunteered,” Kiser said.
“I certainly think this is a worthwhile endeavor.”
Davis agreed. “Basically I’m here to supervise,” Davis said. “Students come to me with
ideas and I approve them and give them ideas on
some ways to make them successful and I do the
all the publicity.”
For promoting “really all I did was call the
Midland paper, e-mailed Karen Lanier and asked
her to do some stuff with it in the school paper,
had a flier made for the students to take around
to different veterinary clinics and just send out
campus emails.” Davis said.
Photo courtesy of Susan Randle
“We want this to spread by word of mouth,”
MC assistant art professor Susan Randle pretended to
said Amy Williamson, vice president NAVTA.
“As long as we have students, we’ll be here be the Easter Bunny so that her beagle, Sara, would
pose for a picture at the Vet Tech photo shoot.
doing this,” Davis said.
Commentary
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Editorial
Common courtesy?
It is called common courtesy because it is supposed to be common.
However, politeness seems to have been replaced with pushiness. Civility
and consideration have been substituted for rudeness and rebellion.
People no longer open doors for each other or hold the elevator. “Please”
and “thank you” have disappeared from daily jargon. We seem to be becoming an individual-based culture that believes nothing is more important than
our own personal life.
We put our own wants and desires above everything and everyone else.
We have turned into a greedy civilization filled with Varuca Salts and
Ebenezer Scrooges.
Parking lots and busy streets seem to be a great example of our self-oriented society. The rush to get the best parking slot at the AFA turns normal
people into speed demons. We cut off our peers to pull into the space when
there are five others just as desirable and easily accessible right down the
row.
We carelessly rush around in our sports cars, nearly running over innocent pedestrians along the way. We have adopted the idea that pedestrians
have the right of way as long as they are not in the way.
When drivers reach a four-way stop, there seems to be a race to get off
the starting line and go first. Gone are the days of waving someone else on,
causing a slight, microscopic personal delay.
We look out for number one, which is almost always ourselves and put
everyone else on the back burner.
Why don’t we all try being nice for a change of pace? Let someone get in
front of you on the loop when he or she has had their signal light on for the
past mile. Give a friendly courtesy wave when someone lets you in their
lane. Sit back and let someone walk in front of your car on their way to class
in the rain or even in the sunshine.
Just show some not-so-common courtesy and be the bigger, better person
every now and again. You might just be surprised at the warm and fuzzy
feeling you get from just being nice.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
by Kimberly Trimble
of...
Page Editor
There are different levels of being a
scumbag. My good friend Kimberley
has the idea that all people are capable
of being scumbags; it just depends on
to what extent their scumbag-ness
exists.
No, this is not a title reserved for
just the male species either. This is not
going to be a woman’s rant on the
awfulness of men and a look at where
to start when it comes to fixing them.
I’ve known plenty of girls whom I
would consider to be seedy scumbags
as well.
Along with different levels, there
are also different types of scumbags
to look out for when perusing the dating world.
The first is the liar. The liar says
whatever they think the other person
wants to hear whether it is true or fabricated fiction. The liar stretches,
bends and breaks the truth to meet his
or her own selfish needs. The liar
keeps their past and parole officer a
secret.
The next is the cheater. The cheater
is fueled by his or her animalistic
desires and always wants what they
can’t have. The cheater ignores proper and professional decorum while
making catcalls and chasing attractive, warm bodies. Cheaters neglect to
mention that they have a mate in the
town where they used to live and lead
you to believe that you are the only
one.
Another type is the self-centered,
egomaniac. This scumbag doesn’t
remember your birthday or middle
name. They forget your friends’
names and how many siblings you
have. They think that the most important feature of you is the fact that
you’re with them.
Common along with the egomaniac
is the selfish spender. This type of
scumbag will go out and blow hundreds of dollars on new clothes or the
Xbox 360, while saying, “babe can
you pick up the tab?” because they
can’t so much as pay for their half of
a meal.
There is also the emotionallyunavailable stone figure. This relationship criminal can’t connect on a
deeper level. Maybe their mommy
left them in the crib crying or took
Quo
Vadimus
The Good, The Bad and
The Ugly
By Angie Wennerlind
Page Editor
Okay, so this is my, if I counted correctly, 19th newspaper column. And
to be completely honest with you, I
am fresh out of ideas to write about.
That’s right, fresh out like the Fresh
Prince of Bel Air, I’m out of Mentos
… the fresh-maker and I am out fresh
like fresh-baked bread. It happens I
guess.
But instead of filling my column
space with my latest, stick-figure
comic—a masterful piece about a
hungry basketball player who realizes
he’s about to shoot a basketball that is
actually a hamburger, so he eats it—I
asked my friends to help me brainstorm.
Luckily, their IQs rival the brightest
and best. That is, when you add them
all together.
So the first idea of something to
write about was video games, an idea
that pretty much blows to bits the theory that my friends are smart.
But to appease them, this is what I
know about video games: 1. Most of
the guys that play them don’t have
girlfriends; 2. There is a reason for
this, they play video games. It’s all a
vicious cycle really.
The second idea was to write about
the meaning of life, an idea that is
overused at best, and one that I have
already written about like nine times.
Which means that my friends really
don’t pay much attention to what I
write in my articles.
So let’s recap: we know life’s
meaning is not 42, the color purple or
found by playing video games.
Although, I am pretty sure that this
life is not all there is.
Which leads us right into idea number three: popularity, something some
people are convinced is all there is.
What I know about popularity is
that there’s a secret equation for it that
looks something like this: sweet hair
+ slick car + most friends + cutest
boyfriend/girlfriend + who got the
most drunk over the weekend +
whose face has the fewest zits +
who’s not in band/orchestra + who’s a
jock + who doesn’t play video games
+ who doesn’t wear their pants up to
their forehead = popular.
Yeah, that’s about right.
Anyone familiar with Myspace
knows the popularity game. There are
people on there with lists of friends
containing about 23,109 people.
It’s true, I’ve seen them. But no one
really has that many friends. No one.
And if you do, chances are that your
“friends” are only pretending to be
your friends; they really just want
your money.
Which answers the question that is
idea number four: “Why do people
have hair?”
The reasons are obvious: 1.
Because we have funny-shaped
heads; 2. So that we can better the
economy by employing hairdressers
3. So that through some skillful hairstyling one can gain popularity, and
will then have no desire to play video
games; 4. So that through not playing
video games one can snatch a girlfriend/boyfriend.
Which is, after all, the meaning of
life.
April 7, 2006
I honestly believe that my computer is cheating at Hearts. I try and try
and try to win, but every time I get
close to coming out on top in the
game, I end up getting two hands in a
row that sink me.
For those who have no idea, Hearts
is a card game that most computers
come equipped with already. The idea
is simple: you win the game by having fewer points at the end of the
game than your opponents. It is comparable to Spades, but it is less animalistic.
The queen of spades is worth 13
points, and the hearts are all worth
one point. I have gotten close to winning before, but inevitably lose
because I get saddled with a handful
of cards that lead me to want to throw
my computer out of the window. I
have even been known to yell at this
inanimate object on more than one
occasion.
Not that these actions would have
any consequence on the game, but it
does make me feel better—although I
grimace at the thought of my highpriced laptop lying in two dozen
pieces, slain at the hands of a madman.
There is no reasonable explanation
as to why I can’t eek out a win at
Hearts. Every statistician will tell you
the probability of losing at Hearts as
many times as I have is as likely as
winning the lottery. It is possible, but
not very probable. Of course statisticians are a peculiar bunch and I
wouldn’t count on them—sorry for
the pun.
So I am forced to deal with the fact
that perhaps I am just not destined to
away their binky too soon. For whatever reason this type of scumbag is
emotionally dead inside and not worth
the time.
Worst of all is the combinationscumbag. They are a medley and mixture of some or all the afore-mentioned types. Typically, most scumbags are multiple offenders. After all,
it is hard to carry on two relationships
with two different people who don’t
know about each other without lying.
So how do you know if you’re dating a scumbag, or maybe even if you
are one? If you, or the person you are
seeing meet any of the above criteria,
chances are there is a bright flashing
red light that reads “scumbag” above
someone’s head.
If you fear that you or someone you
love may be a scumbag, seek immediate treatment and consider having
your scumbag genes removed and
replaced with a conscience.
Sometimes, there are just scumbags
with orange motorcycles. Okay, so
having an orange motorcycle doesn’t
make you a scumbag; it just means
you have bad taste in colors.
By Randy Rodriguez
Editor
win. That is when the thoughts that
my computer is cheating start to brew.
Some maladjusted, disenfranchised
computer programmer decided that
he, or she, was building a computer
for someone who has a fuse about half
a second long and would commit his,
or her, day to designing the game to
beat me every single time. Sad, but
true.
What did I do to deserve this fate?
If you know me at all, that is a rhetorical question; if you don’t, then I have
done nothing. I have spent hours,
weeks, years trying to come out on
top, but fall short every time. So it has
to be that the three computer opponents in the game (Pauline, Michele
and Ben) are conspiring against me.
They are feeding each other cards and
giving me the hands that are bona fide
losers.
These three sadists have been the
bane of my existence since I began to
play the game. The computers
change, but the names remain the
same. I have hated, hated these three
without provocation for years. I have
no reason to believe that they are trying to send me over the edge, but I
have my suspicions.
I don’t spend as much time playing
the game anymore. I haven’t given up
my quest, but there comes a point
when you realize that it just may not
be feasible to have the desired outcome in the game. Funny thing is, I
still have the drive to play and win,
but that determination has been
diminished by the fact that, sometimes, you just have to play the hand
you were dealt and deal with the outcome as best you can.
So, I will play a game while I write
this column to show the world that it
is impossible for me to succeed in the
game: Out of the gate strong. Pauline
is leading by three points but it is still
early.
About halfway through the game, I
have a 25 point lead. Ben is the low
man with 86 points.
Four hands in a row, I got the queen
and four hearts. Two times, I was left
with nothing to use but the queen.
Ben has gotten exactly zero points in
the aforementioned four hands.
Typical.
It’s over. Michele came out of
nowhere to win. I finished last with
106 points. Ben finished with 87.
Pauline finished with 72. Michele had
61.
I really was hoping that I could get
a win for you guys, but like I said
before, it is not in the cards. Again,
sorry for the bad pun—not that there
are good puns.
I now take the loss with a grain of
salt. I have no reason to get angry
about such inconsequential things
such as computers, Hearts and disgruntle programmers. I look at it from
another vantage point now. I see losing the games now less like everyone
out to get me, and more like certain
entities out to get me.
Maybe it is the cards that I throw
away before the game begins. It might
be the cards I play during the game. It
could just be that Hearts is not my
game. Perhaps I should start playing
Spider Solitaire. Or maybe I should
just give up games all together. At
least then I would not have to say
“You @#$%^!& cheater” as much.
El Paisano
The Student Newspaper of Midland College
Editor: Randy Rodriguez
Editorial Staff: Michael Mancha, Kimberly Trimble,
Angie Wennerlind
Reporters:
Lindsey Chesser
Julie Davis
Alan Eskew
Jessica Gonzales
Morgan Gotcher
Michael Montalvo
Rachel Powers
Ember Rogers
Adam Villarreal
Joshua Wilson
Photographers:
Lynn Blakeney
Melissa Broten
Kimberly Trimble
Randy Rodriguez
Cartoonists
Michael Montalvo
Tommy Simmons
Lab Instructor:
Karen Lanier
Adviser:
Bob Templeton
Comments and views expressed in
El Paisano reflect the thoughts
of individual student writers and do not
necessarily reflect the beliefs or opinions
of other students, faculty members,
administrative officers or the board
of trustees. El Paisano is a member
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Association and the Texas Intercollegiate
Press Association. The publication and its
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News
April 7, 2006
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16th Science Extravaganza
Above: Elemetary school students watch as Midland High School students
explain their catapult.
Below: The cows came in ... dairy cows from Southwest Dairy Farmers in
Sulphur Springs, Texas, offered students a close-up of the dairy business.
Above: Students
touch the “moon
blob” held by the
volunteer MC
student.
Photos courtesy of MC media services
At right: A tornado
forms in a beaker.
More than 2,000
students from
Midland,
Greenwood and
Stanton schools as
well as home
schooled and private school students attended.
Job Fair 2006
Everyone from Mastercuts to
Union Pacific Railroad were
on-hand at the Chap Center
April 4 as Job Fair 2006 kicked
off. More than 100 companies
offered career choices and
advancement opportunities to
any interested individual.
MC freshman Josh Greer (right)
listens as Bernard Hooper, civilian
recruiter, (left) discusses the
advantages of joining the Army.
Greer said he is majoring in nursing and feels that the Army would
be a good fit for him.
Photos by
Randy Rodriguez
Lindsay Olson, below, is a
recruiter for the nursing program
at Texas Tech. She hoped to entice
a few people to join the program.
News
Page 4
April 7, 2006
Cosmetologists do ‘do’s,’ makeup, nails
By Kimberly Trimble
Page Editor
Director of the cosmetology program, Michael Fields, said that he has
strong hopes that this year’s first ever
“Prom Do’s” days will be successful
and that this occasion will become an
annual event for Midland College’s
cosmetology program.
Fields has been a licensed cosmetologist for the past 27 years and
earned his certification through a program in El Paso, Texas.
Before joining the MC staff, Fields
worked independently in salons and
said he continues to be very active in
the Midland Community Theater,
which he has been participating in for
the past 13 years, using both his talents as a cosmetologist, stylist and as
an actor.
Fields was recently in the MCT’s
production of the musical Cats, where
he played Mr. Mistofolees. Fields said
he is also actively involved in the
Yucca Theater’s Summer Mummers
production both on and off stage.
success and watching while learning
takes place.
“I love seeing the
students get it,”
Fields said. “It is
very rewarding to
finally see the light
bulb go off and for a
student to finally
understand something that they have
been trying to master.”
There are currently
37
students
enrolled in the program at different
stages in earning
their licenses.
The first step
Photo by Kimberly Trimble
towards becoming
Cosmetology student Megan McCollum cuts the
state certified is to
hair of patron Mark Stephens Tuesday.
complete a minimum of 5,100 hours
Fields also said that he really
enjoys his job as director at the col- in the classroom learning the craft.
After the hours have been completlege and that the best part is observing
ed, the students then take both a written and a practical test that is commissioned by the state of Texas Board
of Cosmetology.
MC’s first five costmetology graduates recently passed their final exam
for their state license. They are:
Ashely Burson, Erica Rodrigues,
Amber McCall, Valerie Hernandes
and Summer Schnieder.
Once certification is granted, MC’s
cosmetology program has an advisory
board consisting of 10 salons that
helped newly licensed students get a
job in the field.
“My job as an instructor is different
than being out there on my own as a
stylist,” Fields said. “It used to be all
about me, but now I have the welfare
of more than 30 people in my hands.
It raises my level of dedication to the
students and making the program successful.”
There is also an associate of cosmetology degree available to licensed
students who may want to teach in the
future.
The cosmetology program’s latest
addition is the “Prom Do’s” day that
offers high school students a professional, but affordable opportunity to
get hair, make-up and a manicure for
that special event known as prom.
The prom package includes a light
facial with make-up application, a
prom hairstyle known as an up-do and
a manicure for $15.
Fields said that he feels that the
price is extremely reasonable and
gives girls the chance to have special
pampering on their special day for a
very manageable price.
The salon will be open on prom
Saturdays from 11a.m. to around 3
p.m.
Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments should be made to guarantee a
slot.
“As a community college, we are
all about doing things for the community,” Fields said.
“It is really about giving something
back while we do the things that cosmetologist love to do.”
Nolte cultivates her talent with ink, paper, creativity
By Adam Villarreal
Staff Reporter
In 2007, Midland College employee Katherine Nolte will have her short
story Before the Train and After published in an anthology New Sudden
Fiction.
Nolte works in the institutional
advancement office and said she is
currently “gearing up to teach creative
writing this summer” as well as working on her upcoming novel.
The following is a recent interview
with Nolte:
Adam Villarreal: So what inspired
the story?
Katherine Nolte: It was inspired by
my friend, me and her boyfriend at the
time. We were seeing some bands
play and outside the club there was a
train track and a train was coming by.
Her boyfriend said he was going to
touch the train and he did touch it but
nothing happened. It just kind of came
from that.
AV: What I liked about it was how
you kind of jumped around at the
beginning from dream sequence to
reality. Did you plan that?
KN: Not Necessarily. I first started
writing it when I was in college as an
assignment where we were supposed
to write the beginning of a story … so
I didn’t write it in one big chunk. I
wrote the beginning and later
fully, I can bring
came back and added to it.
that to the students
AV: So, how long did it take
here.
you to write this?
AV: Cool. So
KN: Well, like I said I wrote
who noticed your
it in college and then I went to
story to get it pubgraduate school and after gradlished?
uate school, I revised it and I
KN: Okay, well
entered it in this contest and it
what happened was
won.
I had entered it in
AV: Did you go to college
this contest from
here at MC?
Writer’s
Digest
KN: No, it was in Ohio at
Magazine and it
Bright State University.
won the grand prize
AV: You’re from Ohio? What
which was $2,000
brought you down here?
and then publicaKN: While I was in graduate
tion in their magaschool, my husband was offered
zine and then it was
a position.
selected just recentHe’s the scenic designer at
ly for an anthology
Midland Community Theater so
called New Sudden
… here we are.
Fiction which they
AV: All right, so what do you
take from stories
do at MC?
published everyKN: Well, I work in the founwhere which are
dation office part time in the
Photo by Melissa Broten under 2,000 words.
morning then in the afternoons I
It made the final
work on my writing. This sum- Katie Nolte, a Midland College employee, has a passion for cut. It’s my first
mer I’m going to be teaching an writing that has earned her various accolades and led to
story to be in an
online creative writing class at the publication of several of her short stories.
anthology so I’m
the college, summer session II.
really excited.
ered one of the top programs so I
I think it will be exciting because I think that I have a lot of experience
AV: So, have you been published
went to graduate school for creative with Pulitzer Prize winners and, hope- before?
writing and I went to what’s considKN: Yes, I’ve had about 20 short
stories published; they’ve been in literary magazines like the Portland
Review, a lot of publications affiliated
with universities and that kind of
thing.
AV: So, you say you work on your
writing in the afternoon. What are you
working on these days?
KN: Right now I’m working on a
novel.
AV: What’s it about if I may ask?
KN: Well, I don’t like to say too
much … it’s sort of about a family and
then something sort of tragic and
mysterious happens one summer, so it
takes place during that summer and
the main protagonist is a girl and it’s
before her freshman year of high
school. I’ve been working on it for a
couple of years.
AV: Don’t want to give away too
much, huh? How did you get interested in writing in the first place
KN: Well, I actually started at a
community college and that’s where I
took my first creative writing class. I
feel like I got a lot of encouragement
you know, from my professor there
and it made feel like I had a certain
talent that I could try to develop and
then I moved on to a university and
then I decided to pursue it as graduate
work. It’s something I’ve always been
interested in.
College fair attracts Dasch to speak April 25
transfer students
By Morgan Gotcher
Staff Reporter
Midland College hosted six universities for the Spring Transfer Fair on
March 28. The fair happens twice a
year and is designed to aid transferring students with their applications
and financial aid.
Representatives from Angelo State,
Lubbock Christian, Sul Ross, Texas
Tech, University of Texas of the
Permian Basin and West Texas A&M
were present. MC’s bachelor of
applied technologies program was
also represented.
Stan Jacobs, associate vice-president of instruction and transfer studies, also attended the event. He noted
that five of the schools were partners
with MC, offering courses at the campus.
Bob Haines, MC’s dean of enrollment, said that if students are late in
contacting a school for a fall 2006
transfer, they need to do so “right
now.”
Haines also encouraged students to
sign up for a $100 scholarship drawing.
Some schools, however, do not
have a strict deadline.
Jean Sellers, admissions counselor
for Lubbock Christian University,
said that there is no deadline for
applications and students can transfer
anytime.
“We are waving the $25 application
fee through April 9,” Sellers said. “If
they are even thinking of coming,
they should apply.”
Interested students can apply online
at www.LCU.edu.
MC’s bachelor of applied technologies program also accepts transfers
year-round. Students can be accepted
with only 30 credit hours and are
introduced to upper level courses
after about 60 credit hours.
Applications can only be completed
online at the MC Web site.
Any questions should be directed to
the office of Nancy Hart, dean of
admissions for the applied technology
program, at 685-4704.
Happy Easter
from
El Paisano
staff
on Antarctic meteorites
From Staff Reports
Looking for Martians at the South Pole: The Search for
Meteorites from Mars in Antarctica is the subject of a
presentation by Julius Dasch, Ph.D., planned for 7 p.m.,
Tuesday, April 25 in the Wagner and Brown Auditorium,
Allison Fine Arts building.
Prior to the Apollo missions, the only samples of extraterrestrial rock existing on Earth were meteorites.
Meteorites are thus extremely important messengers
from other parts of the solar system, and tell us a lot
about early Earth, according to Dasch.
Most meteorites found in recent years come from the
ice of Antarctica, including about 26 rare meteorites
thought to have originated on the Moon and about the
same number thought to have originated on Mars.
Each year an Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) American team collects these interesting rocks and
takes them to the NASA Johnson Space Center for curation and distribution for scientific study.
Dasch’s talk will describe an ANSMET field trip and
the importance of meteorites.
Dasch, an adjunct professor of geology at Sul Ross
State University (SRSU) in Alpine, Texas, has degrees in
geology from SRSU (BS), the University of Texas in
Austin (MA), and Yale University (MS, PhD).
After a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the
Australian National University,
Canberra, he taught geology and geochemistry courses
at Oregon State University, Corvallis.
At Oregon State he became known for a very high
enrollment, single-section course (limited to 748 stu-
dents), Rocks and Stars, designed for students not studying scientific or technical subjects. His research (150
publications and abstracts) has primarily been in isotope
geochemistry and education.
Dasch has served as chairman of the Geological
Society of America (Cordilleran Section), president of
the Oregon Academy of Science and is a recipient of the
Burlington Northern Faculty Fellowship for Teaching.
He has received the International Astronautical
Federation Frank J. Malina Medal for Space Education;
the National Science Foundation and Department of the
Navy Antarctic Service Medals; and the NASA
Exceptional Achievement Medal.
He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Sul Ross State
University, Alpine, Texas, and have North Dallas High
School, Texas.
Prior to his retirement from NASA at the end of 2002,
he was director of the NASA Space Grant and NASA
EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate
Competitive Research) programs. Space Grant, modeled
after the Land Grant and Sea Grant University programs,
is in its 16th year, with consortium programs in every
state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The 52
consortia comprise more than 800 academic, industry
and government affiliates and carry out programs in education, research, and public service.
The thirteen-year old NASA EPSCoR Program, modeled after the National Science Foundation EPSCoR
model, operates in 20 states.
Dasch’s presentation is free and open to the public. For
more information, call 685-4612.
News
April 7, 2006
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Carillon Tower chimes hour, shows history
By Michael Mancha
Page Editor
As students make their way from
building to building across the
Midland College campus, the Hodge
Carillon Tower chimes its familiar
songs giving notice of the changing
hour.
Dedicated to MC in October 1975,
the Hodge Carillon Tower has stood
in the center of the MC campus playing its songs every hour on the hour.
“The tower has been an icon of
Midland College since it began,” said
Richard Jolly, MC executive vicepresident.
The tower is often featured in many
of the college’s catalogs, class schedules and many of the publications of
the college. Jolly said that the tower is
often photographed as an icon or symbol of MC.
When MC was originally built in
1975, the Hodge Carillon Tower was
not part of the construction but was
added to the campus in later construction.
The tower was a contribution from
the Hodge family in honor of Sanford
John Hodge Jr. At the time, the family owned and operated the Hodge
Theater in Midland.
Jolly said, the Hodge family made
contributions to many college campuses including Howard Payne
University in Brownwood, Texas.
According to Jolly, when the tower
was originally built, the music came
from antique player piano type rolls.
Jolly recalled times when the rolls
would be put in backwards and would
play what he called, “intelligible
notes that didn’t make any intelligible
music.”
Because everyone on campus was
so used to the tower ringing, Jolly
said, most people would not notice
what was being played.
Photo by Michael Mancha
The Hodge Carillon Tower cast a familiar shadow over the campus and brings music to every hour while being
a permanent figure in the skyline of Midland College.
In the early to mid 90s, after many
difficulties with the rolls, MC began
to look into “modernizing” the tower,
and in 1995, the tower was converted
to play using of a computerized cards
that contain a compilation of music in
each of them and can be programmed
to play in any specific order.
The music is a recording from an
old bell tower in Italy.
Jolly said that when the architects
designed MC, the tower was designed
to stand in the large commons area
where it can be seen today.
Interestingly, the tower is built with
four “vistas” when standing at the
base of the tower.
This means that there are four
unobstructed views from the tower
through the campus.
There is also a wide, clear and
prominent view of the tower from
Garfield Street.
Every year at Christmas time the
tower is traditionally lit in a lighting
ceremony similar to the lighting of the
Downtown Midland Christmas tree or
even the tree lit in Rockefeller Center
in New York City.
Though the tower has been through
a few changes, it stands as the center
of the college and still chimes its
music every hour, every semester.
“It (the tower) means a lot to
Midland College and even the community, even though we forget or
sometimes take its music for granted,
it’s still a great icon for the school,”
Jolly said.
Getting ‘Girls in Engineering’ Students get involved
By Lindsey S. Chesser
Staff Reporter
The Midland members of the
Society of Petroleum Engineers
(SPE) held “Girls in Engineering
Day” to highlight the need for more
women in engineering professions.
High school girls from Midland
schools attended the presentation to
hear local female engineers share
their experiences.
“The goal of the program is to
encourage high school girls to continue their education and consider an
engineering degree,” said Charlie
Swift, a SPE member and engineer
for Basic Energy.
“The demand for engineers is high,
and the field is wide open with many
career opportunities.”
Guest speaker, Kathy Norwood,
who is a petroleum engineer, began
the activities by explaining what engineering is. She also briefly covered all
of the areas of engineering, such as
agriculture, industrial, marine,
mechanical, nuclear and more.
Norwood said “only 10 percent of
practicing engineers are women.”
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in her memory, did our program an
incredible service. And now her
daughter, Carol Schwartz, has maintained the contest since her father’s
death, including funds each year for a
well-known poet to judge the contest
and come in for a reading. We are fortunate indeed,” Feeler said.
Hilda Simmons Levitt graduated
with honors from Louisiana State
Foster
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working on a new album scheduled to
be release in the fall.
She noted that anybody can find it
through www.RuthieFoster.com.
Foster’s sense of humor and off-thecuff manners really captured the energy of the evening, and the band’s personable style made the filled Chaparral
Center feel like a closed session with
Ruthie Foster.
“I believe that women still feel that
engineering is a male-dominated line
of work,” said Vanessa Samora, engineer.
“A lot of people still describe engineering as being out in the field or
working on engines or mechanical
items.”
The Wall Street Journal described
students as seeing engineers as unflattering, uninteresting and too occupied
with their work.
The meeting wanted to dispel those
preconceived ideas.
“I love my job,” said Barbara
Slaton, engineer. “I hope to pass on
some of my excitement in my job to
these young girls.”
One of the most desired topics covered was salary. Engineer Libby
Einhorn said that the salary for engineers, male or female, is constantly
going up.
According to The Bureau of Labor
and Statistics, engineers average a
yearly salary of more than $75,000.
The government statistics also said
that petroleum engineers make the
highest salary of all engineers. For
Samora, it isn’t the salary that draws
her to her line of work, it’s her offering to the community.
“Right now I am a practicing environmental engineer,” she said. “I get
to make a difference in my company
and I help the community stay safe
and environmentally conscious.”
After the female engineers spoke of
their experiences, opportunities, travel and other benefits of engineering,
MC dean of math and natural science,
Margaret Wade, introduced MC
scholarship opportunities related to
the study of engineering. SPE also
organized a fair of different colleges
and universities that offer engineering
programs.
The girls were given time to visit
with the school representatives and
learn more about what is available to
them.
“I hope that maybe the girls I’ve
brought will have a desire to pursue
an engineering degree,” said Joyce
Nichols, Coleman High School counselor. “I think young ladies need to be
exposed to a variety of careers, not
just the traditional.”
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University with a degree in journalism.
At LSU, she studied English with
Poet Robert Penn Warren.
From 1952 until she died in 1986,
Mrs. Levitt lived in Midland where
she took creative writing courses at
the college.
After Mr. Levitt died in 1994, the
Levitt’s children, Carol Levitt
Schwartz, of Washington, D.C., and
John Simmons Levitt, who died in
2004, pledged to continue to support
the contest. Mrs. Schwartz has continued her support of the contest.
For 35 years, the Levitts owned and
operated the General Clothing Store
on East Florida Street. The family still
owns their childhood home on
Midland’s south side.
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Page Editor
Midland College government instructor, Casey Hubble,
has been helping students get
involved in politics as an official club sponsor of the Young
Republicans club for roughly
two years.
In addition to just being the
force behind the Young
Republicans organization at
MC, Hubble is also the faculty
leader
for
the
Young
Democrats club as well.
“I volunteer to sponsor both
organizations because there
was a void there,” Hubble said.
Not all students agree with the
current American political system.
MC student,Tim Castleberry, said
that, “I think that the two party political system is flawed.
“I think that there needs to be
more representation and more action
from the clubs on campus,”
Castleberry said. “The lack of
action is due to the fact that students
just aren’t involved.”
When Texas gubernatorial candidate for the Independent part, Kinky
Friedman, tried to get MC students
to back his race by signing petitions,
the turnout was insignificant.
“No one really showed up,”
Castleberry said.
“There seems to be a current generation of disenchanted youth when
it comes to politics.”
The political clubs on campus,
which have been available off-andon for two decades, are a great way
for students to gain experience in
organizing groups, learning about
politics and activities, Hubble said.
These particular clubs are
involved in tasks such as MC’s club
fair, political debates, arranging for
speakers and helping with campaign
elements, according to Hubble.
The main special project that stu-
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dent members become involved with
is campaign assistance for local and
state candidates, Hubble said.
“They distribute campaign materials, place yard signs, man phone
banks and organize debates,”
Hubble said.
MC students get their feet wet in
the political world by just doing
tasks, some that are small and others
that are more vital, but all of which
are important to the candidate that
they are representing.
“All I ask is that student show up
and be willing to participate in activities, whether it be fundraisers or
just passing out pamphlets,” Hubble
said. That is all that I ask from the
students wanting to get involved.
Making an effort is all it takes.”
Hubble said he feels that involvement in campus clubs, which ever
ones appeal to students, can have a
positive effect even beyond receiving a degree.
“When a future employer sees a
record of campus involvement
beyond normal coursework, it indicates that the student is a go-getter
or over achiever,” Hubble said.
“It means that they are willing to
do more than just the minimum,”
Hubble added.
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Entertainment
April 7, 2006
Video Game Review
New games make modern battlefield reality
By Josh Wilson
Staff Reporter
The era of the Playstation 2 is
quickly coming to an end and with
that comes video game developers’
last efforts to make great games for
the dying console.
Black is an example of one of those
last efforts for the PS2. It’s not the
greatest game out, but it’s certainly
not the worst. Black by EA Games, is
entirely composed of flash backs of a
black-ops agent who has been captured.
Black is a beautifully made game
and it feels as if it really takes advantage of the PS2’s horsepower.
Everything in Black feels like it’s
straight out of a action movie, from
the game levels which vary from
foggy woods to abandoned warehouses, right down to the guns, it all feels
very much like a Rambo flick.
From the moment you are dropped
into the game, you are blowing things
up and that really is the entire point of
the game — find a group of enemies
and find a way to blow them up.
The whole blowing-things-up concept works, but only to an extent. It
really seems to “dull down” the game
in the end since you don’t need any
sort of tactics to defeat the enemy.
The weapons in the game work, but
they aren’t spectacular. You start with
the AK-47 and you rarely stop. Sure
you can use a shotgun and rocket
launcher but due to ammo shortages,
you’ll mostly be sticking with the AK.
Artificial intelligence is a crucial
factor in a first-person shooter and
Black seems to have almost missed
the mark on that one.
In the easy mode of the game the
A.I seems to be “dumbed-down” a bit
and easily killed, but as you up the
difficulty the A.I gets significantly
harder, though not enough to excuse
the easy mode stupidity.
All in all, Black has met its purpose
of being an action-movie acolyte and
letting the player blow a lot of things
up. It’s just not enough to make it a
perfect game.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon:
Advanced War Fighter-XBox 360
The X-Box 360 is now on its second wave of games, but has anything
improved?
The first batch of games for the 360
had both high and low points, but the
second wave is starting to raise some
eyebrows.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon:
Advanced War Fighter by UbiSoft
shows exactly what the 360 can do.
From the get-go you’re dropped into a
training level that covers every aspect
of everyt h i n g
you’ll do
in
the
game.
There is
a lot to be
learned in
G R AW F,
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learning to
take cover
to ordering your
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team from
one point to another; it all makes for a
huge learning curve.
Throughout the game you will take
control of several things including an
air-borne drone, several assault vehicles and your teammates.
GRAWF’s levels have a very gritty
look to them, but that helps in the over
all feel of the game. GRAWF tends to
have a very slow tactical feel to it. It
only takes a few shots to get yourself
killed and you will spend a lot of time
taking cover … still it is a very action
filled game..
The action varies from running and
gunning through streets, to shooting
at the enemy from the door of a Black
Hawk, all done in beautiful fashion.
There are a few downsides to
CD Review
Geiger’s sound definitely not underage
By Kimberly Trimble
Page Editor
The freshman project of 16-year-old Teddy
Geiger, which was released on March 21, is an
impressive collection of eclectic music and powerful, original lyrics.
Thinking Underage is a promising career start for
Geiger, who is not only a captivating vocalist, but
also a talented musician and songwriter.
Geiger not only provided all the vocals for the
album, but also contributed by playing the bass,
piano, guitar and drums.
The introductory song of the CD, These Walls, is a
great beginning to a satisfying collection. The music
for this song is toe-tapping and draws in the listener.
The lyrics are universal, yet they maintain creativity
and avoid falling into a cliché rut.
The following track, For You I Will (Confidence),
is likely the only song that will be familiar to listen- Cover of Geiger’s album Underage Thinking.
ers as it is the only one that has been released for airplay. This song is a not-so-classical love song. It puts
is the attitude-filled Air Dry. Geiger’s I’m-over-it
a fresh and enjoyable spin on the typical guy-meets-girl approach for this track is refreshing and shows his range
scenario.
of emotion as a performer.
“I could fall asleep in those eyes like a waterbed,” is
This track is a personal favorite that starts with some
something that every girl wants to hear, proving that unusual word choices, but has a chorus that really brings
Geiger not only has a great musical knowledge, but per- it home, making it a delectable delight.
haps an understanding of the opposite sex well beyond
Seven Days Without You is an introspective look into a
his young age.
week in the life of a hopeless romantic. There is just
The title track, Thinking Underage, has a good basis something about this song that makes it a pleasure to the
with a good concept, but falls a little short in comparison ears and to the soul.
to most of the other songs on the album. When the rest of
Another slight disappointment is the final track, Love
the songs hit it out of the park, it is expected that a few is a Marathon. The song is by no means unlikable; it just
of the songs are going to be less than a homerun.
isn’t up to par with the other tracks on the album.
Look Where We Are Now starts calm and has almost a
This 12-track album is entertaining, insightful and
coffee-house quality, but picks up at the chorus and enjoyable making it a perfect 10 and a great presentation
proves to be a very pleasing track.
of Geiger to the music world. Much is to be expected
Perhaps one of the most interesting songs of the album from this up-and-coming artist.
Ten Thoughts You Should Keep To Yourself
1. “I have a wedgie.”
2. “Has she gained weight or is she pregnant?”
3. “Why are they wearing that?”
4. “Has he joined the hair club for men yet?”
5. “Does this lecture have a point?”
6. “Wow, Harry Potter is hot.”
7. “I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts, deeduly dee duh dee….”
8. “Does the five second rule count for gum too?”
9. “I wonder if that’s infected.”
10. (While your significant is standing next to you) “Wow…look at her.”
GRAWF. For instance, there are no
innocent bystanders and in a place
like Mexico City, there are more than
a few people. Where, as in this
instance, the streets are empty.
Another in-game problem is glare.
There are sometimes points in a
game where realism hurts and this is
one of them.
When you are looking off into the
horizon in GRAWF, you will more
than likely be looking into the sun and
not be able to see, making it hard to
shoot at anything.
Graphically, GRAWF is flawless
and the game-play is close to perfect,
really showing off where the next
generation of video games is and what
it could become.
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat Playstation 2
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat is a
mix of multi-player madness and military tactics and the mixture works
well in this case. Modern Combat is a
game that relies heavily on its multiplayer capabilities and has a singleplay campaign just to have one.
Modern Combat consists of four
classes for the player to be: Assault,
Sniper, Special Ops, Engineer and
Support. Each class has its own set of
weapons and capabilities; each has its
strong and weak points on the battle-
field.
The level selection in Modern
Combat consists of about nine places
to do battle with people from all
across the globe.
Like other massively multi-player
games Modern Combat has game
play issues. You sometimes find yourself being
killed by
somebody
who was in
front
of
you seconds before
and if you
have a really
slow
Internet
connection,
then you’ll
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never see
them at all.
The competition in Modern
Combat is stiff. You face off against
people from all over the world, so due
to time differences there is always
somebody on and ready to kill you.
Even though it has some lag issues
and the single-player campaign is all
but useless, the multiplayer mode of
Modern Combat makes the game one
of the best multi-player games on the
Playstation 2.
DVD Review
‘Howling’ new release
By Michael Montalvo
Staff Reporter
Every so often a film comes around
that will just blow you away. Foreign
or American, animated or live-action,
these movies make a place in our
hearts, Howl’s Moving Castle is one
such film.
The DVD release of Hayao
Miyazaki’s 2004 film, though lacking
in special features, does not disappoint diehard fans of Miyazaki and
Studio Ghibli.
The DVD comes with the original
Japanese track as well as the English
dubbed staring Christian Bale, Emily
Mortimer, Jean Simmons, Lauren
Bacall, Blythe Danner, Crispin
Freeman and Billy Crystal. A special
Behind the Microphone featurette is
included where you are taken behind
the scenes to view the English cast in
recording sessions. A video
diary/documentary of Miyazaki’s trip
to Pixar Animations Studio, the original Japanese trailers, an interview
with the films translator Pete Doctor
and a special feature that allows you
to watch the film in storyboards.
While the film may be one of
Miyazaki’s best works, the DVD set
lacks the magic that the film brought
to life and may find some fans passing it by, however, should you pick it
up you will not be disappointed by
the film or its content.
CD Review
‘The Sons’ of new metal
By Michael Mancha
Page Editor
People have often wondered what
would happen if you mixed classic
southern rock, early heavy metal and
modern hardcore. Well, such a lovechild has been born – their name,
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.
Deriving their name from the infamous story of crime boss, Ma Barker
and her four sons who led a 20 year
spree of crime and murder along the
southern United States ending in
1935, Maylene brings a sound as
rough and powerful as the crime family themselves.
Maylene lead singer, Dallas Taylor
was quoted as saying, “Maylene and
The Sons Of Disaster is made up of
five dudes who play the role of the
Barker sons, and in these songs we
speak as though we were them, telling
any who would listen that a life lived
unjustly will meet divine justice on
the other side. We also wanted to think
of the most crazy backwoods theme
possible for this band.”
With a heavy, hard-hitting sound
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
bring something that has never been
heard before. Lead singer Dallas
Taylor had previously been the front
man for the Florida hardcore band
Underoath. Combining his hardcore
background and inspiration from the
story of Ma Barker as well as his own
southern roots, Taylor brought together a band that brings to life the never
before heard sub-genre, southern rock
metal.
Maylene’s self-titled debut cd hit
stores back in October 2005, and their
impact is continuing to grow. The
opening track Caution: Dangerous
Curves Ahead, hits you with a squealing metal guitar riff reminiscent of
early Pantera. Taylor’s viciously
screaming vocals bring the classic
metal riffs to a new and modern level.
The song quickly progresses to a new
heart pounding mix of metal with
southern rock style.
With each proceeding track comes
an infectious cycle of thick guitar,
passionate screams and tempos that
fly somewhere between Metallica
and Black Sabbath.
The fourth song, Tough as John
Jacobs, changes the pace with an
opening guitar that would remind anyone of George Thorogood and the
Destroyers’ Bad to the Bone. While
the last track, Just Wanted to Make
Mother Proud, which tells the story of
Ma Barker, will ring in the hearts of
Lynyrd Skynyrd fans.
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
are most definitely a sound all their
own. They bring together the classics
of southern rock with the new and
fresher hardcore genre. i reccomend
this is for the experienced hardcore
listener only but if you do listen be
warned, you’ll want to start eating
grits and standing barefoot on your
front porch.
Sports
April 7, 2006
Page 7
Sport Offense proves ready for post-season
Shorts
All Sports
Banquet
April 25
MC’s Annual All Sports Banquet
is planned for 7 p.m., Tuesday, April
25, at the Midland Hilton.
Tickets will be $10 and can be
purchased at the student activities
office in Scharbauer Student Center.
The banquets honors all MC athletes for the 2005-2006 academic
year with special awards going to
some athletes.
The public is invited to attend.
For more information, contact
Forrest Allen, assisistant athletic
directorand sports information
director, 685-6436.
Lady Chaps ranked
18th in nation
Congratulations to the MC Lady
Chaps softball team who, at press
time, is rated 18th in the nation.
The team has three home games
left this season. Catch them against
Odessa College at 2 p.m., Friday,
April 21; against El Paso CC, 4
p.m., Friday, April 28 and at 1 p.m.,
Saturday, April 29.
Games are played at Freddie
Ezell Field of West Wall Street.
Intramurals
wind down
By Julie Davis
Staff Reporter
Intramural basketball ended on
March 1. Free World came in first
place in bracket one defeating the
Fuddies, and the combined teams of
Old Timers and All Stars were
named champions in bracket two,
beating Bird Gang.
“This is my second year to play
intramural basketball. Last year I
played for Grayson Junior College. I
like Midland College’s intramurals
better. MC has a more enjoyable and
fun, easy-going atmosphere. Free
World played to win and had a lot of
fun, which of course we did both. We
are the number one team ‘forshezzy,’” said Marcus Wright, captain of the Free World team.
Volleyball started on April 3 in the
MC gym and ends on April 12. There
are eight teams sighed up to play;
Muscle Busters, Dust Busters, Hips
Don’t Lie, 4-Pack, UnKnown,
Team X-tra, Gunners and Scrubs.
Full schedules of game times can be
picked up outside of Terrence
Ander’s office door, SSC 109. Anders
is intramural coordinator/cheerleader
sponsor.
“Volleyball seems to be more fun
and more relaxed than other intramural sports. Students and faculty can
enjoy each other’s company in a less
competitive atmosphere, before the
spring semester is over,” Anders said.
Dodgeball was scheduled for earlier this semester, but because of a lack
of enrollment, dodge ball games have
not started yet.
If students are interested in playing
and enough teams sign up, a tournament can be set up to be played after
Easter break. Anyone interested can
stop by Ander’s office.
Also, the billiard tournament that
was scheduled on Feb.17 and PingPong on Feb. 24 was canceled
because a table was broken in the
game room. They have both been
rescheduled. Stop by the SSC game
room for information.
“Involvement in intramurals has
been down this semester, but so have
dances and other campus activities it
seems. Students must be a lot busier
this semester working, than they have
in past years,” Anders said.
By Randy Rodriguez
Editor
The Midland College baseball team
is heading into the home stretch of the
season, and the offense is proving it’s
ready for post-season play.
MC took 3-of-4 in a weekend set
with Odessa College March 31 and
April 1 to improve their record to 258 on the season and 8-4 in conference
play.
Game one Saturday saw an offensive explosion from Tim Smith and
Aaron Powell who combined for two
two-run homeruns and five RBIs in
the game. Flynn Schakowski (7-1)
held the Wranglers in check allowing
one run on five hits in the complete
game 5-1 win.
Kurtis Schumacher got the start in
the 9-8 thrilling victory by the Chaps
in game two. OC took a 5-2 lead
going into the fourth before the Chaps
rallied with two runs in the frame to
close the gap to one.
MC then scored two in the eighth
and three in the ninth to take a 9-6
lead into the last half of the ninth.
Brian Anderson (1-1) came on in
relief in the eighth and allowed three
runs in two innings before getting
OC’s Alberto Lopez to flyout ending
the game. The win was the first of the
year for Anderson.
The Chaps split Friday’s twinbilling 1-4 and 10-6. OC’s James
Fischer held the MC offense scoreless
before allowing MC’s only run in the
bottom of the seventh.
The second game proved more
fruitful for the Chaps as they
answered with five runs in the bottom
of the first after OC starter, Chris
Pulec, gave up three hits, three walks
and hit T.C. Trujillo. The Chaps put
up three more with RBI-doubles from
Powel and Stevie Lewis. Danny
Frisby (3-0) picked up the win going
seven innings before Barry Keiffer
finished the game and recorded his
second save of the season.
MC traveled to Abilene March 27
to take a 13-5 win from McMurry
University’s J.V. squad.
The Chaps pounded out eight runs
in the top of the first and McMurry
had no answer for the offensive thunder MC provided. Smith tallied three
hits, while Trujillo and Riley Curry
added two hits each.
Logan Forest drove in two with two
hits and Stephen Hermann hit a solo
shot in the seventh. Keiffer went five
innings to get the win.
El Paso Community College struggled to find a way to stop the vaunted
MC offense in a two-day series March
24-25.
Friday’s doubleheader featured the
Chaps hammer El Paso 11-5 in the
first game and 15-8 in the game two.
Joey Aguilar went 3-for-6 on the day
with a towering homerun to left-centerfield. Brad Cuthbertson (5-2)
picked up the win in game one.
El Paso would not go down easily
in game two. The Tejanos jumped out
to an 8-5 lead after five, but the Chaps
offense just kept rolling. Smith hit a
two-run double in the fifth and
Trujillo added another two-run double
in the seventh to put the Chaps ahead
for good. Rene Calderon (1-1)
notched his first win of the year.
Day two, El Paso saw more of the
same from the Chaps. MC completed
Photo by Randy Rodriguez
MC pitcher Brad Cuthbertson fires one toward the plate at a home
games earlier this season. MC took 3-of-4 in a weekend set with Odessa
College March 31 and April 1 to improve their record to 25-8.
the sweep over the Tejanos 12-2 and
12-7. After allowing a two-run homer
in the top of the first, Stachowski settled down and turned in six strikeouts
in six innings to lead the Chaps to a
12-2 win. The Chaps batted around
the second inning and put an eight
spot on the board to wrap the game up
early. Curry, Smith and Trujillo each
drove in runs in the inning as Karlton
Banks and Powell each drove in a
pair. Banks finished the game going
3-for-3 at the plate.
Looking to salvage something out
of the weekend, El Paso took a 4-0
lead in the third, but the lead would
disappear in the bottom of the fourth.
MC again put a crooked number on
the scoreboard with six in the fourth
and four in the fifth to put down all
hopes of a win for El Paso. Hermann
and Trujillo each homered and
Aguillar went 4-for-5, scoring three
runs in the series finale. Schumacher
went six in the 12-7 victory.
The Chaps travel to Western Texas
for a two-game set April 7-8; then
make a stop in Clarendon April 14-15
before returning home for a showdown with Frank Phillips April 21-22.
Lady Chaps
Quality pitching, clutch hitting, big innings
By Randy Rodriguez
Editor
The Lady Chaps (33-8-1) got back to their winning ways with a 9-1 record, coming off the
Maricopa Tourney in Arizona, with quality pitching, clutch hitting and big innings.
The Lady Chaps completed the sweep of
Clarendon College April 1 by taking the final two
games of the weekend series 6-0 and 5-4. Elizabeth
Oberst (10-4) didn’t have her usual control of the
strike zone, but that did not stop her from throwing
a complete game, two-hit shutout of the Lady
Bulldogs.
Oberst pitched out of a late-inning rally by the
Bulldogs to put her in double digit wins for the season. The Chaps got on the board first with two runs
in the bottom of the first, and put the game away
with four in the fourth on-route to the 6-0 victory.
Natalia Sergeeva went 3-for-3 in the game, while
Anna Rico chipped in two RBIs.
Game two was a bit of an aberration compared to
the dominate performances of the first three games
of the series. The MC offense could not put up the
multi-run innings thanks in large part to the quality
pitching by Clarendon starter, Samantha Steele. But
the Chaps countered with a 10-strikeout performance from Chelsea Nelson (14-3). Though she gave
up four runs on seven hits, Nelson did enough in the
game to hold off the late inning comeback from
Clarendon. With a game tied at four apiece in the
bottom of the eighth, Natalie Zavala came up big
with a single down the leftfield line to drive in the
winning run.
Friday’s doubleheader was less dramatic as the
Lady Chaps took both games, 8-0 and 10-2. The
MC bats were electric in game one as the Chaps put
two runs on the board in the first, third, fifth and
sixth innings to cruise to an 8-0 shutout of
Clarendon. Sergeeva went 4-for-4 at the plate, and
hit a two-run single in the sixth to end the game due
to the mercy rule. Marina Poddubskaya (5-1) tossed
a one-hit shutout with nine stikeouts in the game.
The bats stayed charged in game two. Four runs
in the first, two in the second and four more in the
fifth were more than enough for Nelson as she
rolled through the Clarendon lineup allowing one
run on two hits in five innings. Maritza Martinez
went 4-for-6, scoring five runs, in the doubleheader
MC welcomed Odessa College to the Freddie
Ezell Softball Complex March 29 as the two teams
split a doubleheader, 3-4 and 3-0. The Lady Chaps
dropped a heartbreaker to OC in game one losing 43 in 12 innings.
With the game knotted at one after three, starters
for both teams took control of the game. Brianna
Dairy went five strong innings allowing one run
before turning the ball over to Oberst in the sixth.
OC starter Kelly Ninemire went the distance allowing three runs and allowing seven hits.
With the score 2-2 heading into the top of the
12th inning, OC finally found the offense they had
been looking for with two runs in the frame taking
a 4-2 lead into the bottom half of the inning. MC
managed one run in the bottom of the 12 from
Rico’s RBI single before Ninemire closed the door.
The Lady Chaps had to put the draining 12inning affair behind them quickly as they knuckled
up to shutout OC in game two 3-0. Christina
Guillen sparked the MC offense with an RBI double in the third scoring Sergeeva to take the 1-0
lead. She added an insurance run with another double in the fifth, scoring on
an infield error. Nelson
took control of the game
Cheerleader tryouts,
mandatory clinic
on April calendar
By Julie Davis
Staff Reporter
Midland College cheerleader tryouts will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, April
29, in the MC Physical Education building for males and females. Mascot tryouts will follow cheerleader tryouts.
There is also a mandatory cheer clinic from 10 a.m.- noon, on Saturday, April
22. All routines for the tryouts will be taught.
Beginning in April before tryouts on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the MC gym
will be open for practice times. Former cheerleaders will be there to help anyone who attends, and coaches will be there if you have questions.
Full cheerleader packets are available outside of SSC 109, the office of
Terrance Anders, intramural coordinator/cheerleader sponsor.
Anders is also available in his office for questions or call him at 685-6467.
Go Chaps!
scattering five hits to earn the shutout.
Frank Phillips proved to be no problem for the
Chaps March 25. MC took both ends of a doubleheader from the Lady Plainsmen with a combined
score of 25-0. The offense wasted no time putting
runs on the board scoring all 17 runs of game one in
the first four innings, highlighted by a nine-run second. Rico double and tripled in the game and
Haywood homered in the blowout. In her first start
of the season, Brianna Dairy threw a one-hit shutout
in the 17-0 thrashing.
Oberst tossed her own one-hit shutout in game
two while the Chaps, once again, dominated Frank
Phillips 8-0. The offense tallied three in the first,
three in the fifth and two in the seventh to complete
the season sweep of the Lady Plainsmen.
Because of the rainout of the two-game set
against OC March 22, the Lady Chaps had a twoweek layoff after the Maricopa Tourney in Arizona.
But rust was not a factor for the Chaparrals as they
laid the wood to Clarendon College March 24, 7-0
and 13-4. Guillen, Martinez, Sergeeva and Zavala
each had extra-base hits in game one, and MC never
looked back after putting two runs on the board in
the first. Nelson picked up the win in the 7-0 rout.
Martinez and Sergeeva continued the hit parade
in the second game smacking an RBI-triple each.
Poddubskaya threw three shutout innings, then
handed the ball to the bullpen to finish out the 13-4
victory.
MC began a long road trip in Snyder to take on
Western Texas April 5, and then it’s on to two-day
series with Howard April 14-15 before finishing
back at Western Texas April 19.
Chap Golfers
Page 8
April 7, 2006
Nisse Bjorling
Sophomore 6’2”
Borlange, Sweden
Sung Ko
Sophomore 6’0”
Seoul, South Korea and
Carrolton, Texas
Robin Lofgreen
Sophomore 6’1”
Ingaro, Sweden
Andrew Ludlow
Sophomore 6’1”
Cypress, Texas
Chase Watkins
Sophomore 6’3”
Ft. Collins, Colo.
Terence Begnal
Freshman 5’9”
Tulsa, Okla.
Casper Bruun
Freshman 5’9”
Copenhagen, Denmark
Kevin Carrigan
Freshman 6’1”
Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada
Leroux Ferreira
Freshman 6’1”
Ceres, South Africa
Eddy Koracevic
Freshman 5’10”
London, England
Paul Odendaal
Freshman 5’9”
Texarkana, Texas
Nathan Sheen
Freshman 5’8”
Amarillo, Texas
Brady Shivers
Freshman 5’10”
Seminole, Texas
Wynand Snyman
Freshman 5’10”
Mussel Bay, South Africa
Patrick Solberg
Freshman 6’2”
Drammen, Norway
What’s Next?
Midland College Chaparral Golf Schedule 2006
Coach Delnor Poss
29-year MC golf coach
April 10-11, 2006
Texas State JUCO Championships
@Tyler, Texas, Time TBA.
April 18-19, 2006
NJCAA Region V Championships
@Waco, Texas, Time TBA.
April 29-30, 2006
WJCAC Invitational
@ Ruidosa, N.M., Time TBA.
May 14-19, 2006
NJCAA national Championship Tournament
@ Ruidoso, N.M., Time TBA
Carrrigan wins medallist crown; team finishes second to OC
By Rachel Powers
Staff Reporter
Kevin Carrigan had no plans of
tying in the medallist standings at the
Omega Treating Chemical Invitational at Green Tree Country Club the
last week of March.
“We’re going to have a playoff,
even if we have to do it under the
table,” Carrigan said after carding a 2under par 70 in the final round on
Tuesday, March 28. “It’s about pride.”
Carrigan made a clutch six-foot
birdie putt on the first playoff hole to
beat Odessa College’s Aaron Manning
and win his first medallist title in three
years.
The feeling would have been better
for Carrigan and the MC golf team if
they had been able to hold on and win
their own tournament. But returning
national champion Odessa ruined that
for the Chaps, sacking a tournamentlow 283 total in the final round to beat
MC (886) by seven shots.
Manning shot a final round 68, and
the highest score by any Wrangler was
Will Kinnaird’s 5-over par 76, as
Odessa took its claim again as possibly the nation’s best golf team.
Maintaining a 12-shot lead over OC
after the opening round, MC Coach
Delnor Poss and the Chaps left Green
Tree worried that they had let a golden opportunity slip away. Midland’s
first-round 298 came under the nastiest weather conditions of the tournament, but the Chaps weren’t able to
take advantage when the conditions
got better.
“We probably all left a good (shots)
out there – I know I did,” said MC’s
Nathan Sheen, who shot a 3-over par
75 in the final round to finish in a tie
for fifth in the medallist standings.
Poss said that there are still some
imminent changes in store for the
Chaps’ No. 1 team, and that he
expects to compete with the
Wranglers as the season enters its
final stretch.
“I’m disappointed, but I certainly
still feel like we have a good team and
I still think we can compete with
them,” Poss said. “We’ve had several
meetings with Odessa and have won
at least two of them, so I know we can
compete with them. We probably
don’t have our best group together
right now, either, and when we get it
together I think we’ll have an even
better chance to beat them.”
Carrigan also expressed disappointment in the golf team’s loss, but the
freshman had a rough time being too
upset after the way he won the medalist title. Having three-putted the 54th
hole to permit Manning into the playoff, Carrigan made sure the playoff
didn’t last for long.
Even after his drive found the left
rough on the par-5 first hole at Green
Tree’s East course, Carrigan went for
the green on his next shot, playing a
low draw that ended up just off the
right side of the putting surface.
Manning, in the fairway with his
drive, laid up with his second shot,
then stuck his third shot just over the
top of the flagstick and left about a
six-foot birdie putt.
Carrigan appeared to have made a
mistake with his first putt, making the
ball roll about five feet too long and
allowing Manning to have a chance to
send the playoff to another hole.
However, Manning missed his birdie
attempt, losing the playoff when
Carrigan snuck his six-footer through
the side door.
“I was really unhappy with the way
I putted Tuesday, so after I ran the
(eagle attempt) past the hole like that
I was a little worried. The ball was
hanging there a little bit, but it
dropped and I’m super-stoked about
getting the win,” Carrigan said in a
Midland Reporter-Telegram story.
Carrigan surged to the top of the
leaderborad with a 145 in the first two
rounds of the Omega Treating
Chemicals Invitational, helping the
MC golf team to a two-shot advantage
heading into Tuesday’s final round.
“(Carrigan) has really been playing
well. He’s a real consistent player,”
Poss said.
Wynand Snyman also carded a 1under 71 in the first round on Monday,
helping the Chaps’ top squad fire a
298 total and take a 12-stroke advantage over back-to-back NJCAA champion Odessa College after the first 18
holes.
The No. 1 Wranglers were anything
but finished, however, after shooting a
293 to claw back into contention in
the afternoon round.
“It’s really going to be a three-horse
race (today) with us, OC and New
Mexico (Junior College),” Poss said.
“And it ought to be a good one.
“I was really pleased with our
morning round—especially considering the conditions—and I think we’ve
given ourselves a good chance.”
Editor’s Note: The information
and quotes for this story came from
stories in the Midland ReporterTelegram.